Good Things Friday (191) and Link Love
October 21, 2022
1. We got our bivalent boosters! I’m just waiting for them to be available for JB now that it’s approved for their age group.
2. Mom win: JB really wanted to decorate a pumpkin this year and I remembered in time to get them one. $5, except there was a mysterious basket discount of $1 which made it $4. I got 35¢ back on that Safeway receipt. I haven’t cancelled Ibotta yet so may as well make back a little bit of cash with that data.
3. Moriah‘s girlfriend needs gender affirming surgery and they need some help funding it.
4. This show is Very Cute and also they have an all Native writers room which is pretty amazing: ‘Spirit Rangers’ creator made the show she longed for as a Native American child
Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools: “I thought there was no God, just torture and hatred,” Whirlwind Soldier testified during a Saturday event on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation led by U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, as the agency confronts the bitter legacy of a boarding school system that operated in the U.S. for more than a century.” The Rosebud reservation is neighbors to the Pine Ridge reservation that we regularly help; one of the coordinators mentioned that the soup kitchen in Rosebud always needs socks and gloves for their elders.
Black Women Are Disappearing From Social Media — Including Me. Here’s Why.
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Shon Miller: Portrait of a Mass Killer as a Human Being
I’d never heard of this show, Quincy ME, before (old article): How Quincy M.E. Changed Medical History, from this thread on Lansbury, Falk and Klugman
Original fiction: How the Crown Prince of Jupiter Undid the Universe, or, The Full Fruit of Love’s Full Folly
How a Microsoft blunder opened millions of PCs to potent malware attacks
This performance of We Need A Little Christmas (featuring @StephanieJBlock in her full Elphaba attire and @KerryButlerNyc on rollerskates) is pure musical theatre madness and I love it. pic.twitter.com/0LQUxAuQLJ
— fintothewoods (@finianhackett) January 10, 2022
I’m in that age bracket where I’m old enough to remember Quincy, M.E., I was too young to watch it when it aired, and I have a friend who was a child actor and played a corpse in one episode.
One thing that stands out to me in that article is that Jack Klugman wanted someone with Tourette’s to play the character who had Tourette’s. That’s really amazing in that time period, and I’m sorry I didn’t know about it sooner.
YES considering how hard it is today to get true representation in Hollywood, the fact that he cared about that detail was a big deal IMO.